George Haydock's Catholic Commentary
Jeremiah 38:9
City. It was useless, therefore, to add the torment of the dungeon, since he must soon have perished. (Calmet)
City. It was useless, therefore, to add the torment of the dungeon, since he must soon have perished. (Calmet)
Verse Jeremiah 38:9. _MY LORD THE KING, THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL_] He must have been much in the king's confidence, and a humane and noble spirited man, thus to have raised his voice against the power...
CHAPTER 38 _ 1. Jeremiah in the dungeon and his rescue (Jeremiah 38:1) _ 2. Jeremiah with Zedekiah: His last appeal (Jeremiah 38:14) Jeremiah 38:1. Jeremiah is next accused of high treason. Th
Four of the princes (Jeremiah 37:15) hear Jeremiah (confined in the guard-court, Jeremiah 37:21) foretelling the fall of the city and advising individual surrender (_cf._ Jeremiah 21:9 f.). They denou...
See introd. summary to section....
_he is like to die_(mg. Heb. _he is dead) in the place where he is because of the famine is dead of hunger on the spot_. Jeremiah was at death's door already, as suffering at once from hunger and from...
AND HE IS LIKE TO DIE FOR HUNGER, &C.— _Particularly when he would have died by hunger where he was, if bread was wanting in the city._ As much as to say, "There was no need for those who desired his...
D. Rescued by Ebed-melech Jeremiah 38:7-13 TRANSLATION (7) And Ebed-melech the Ethiopian. one of the eunuchs attached to the household if the king, heard that they had put Jeremiah in the dungeon. No...
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet,...
1-3. The removal of Jeremiah from the prison was favourable to the publication of his message. Hence the alarm of the princes....
THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL.... — It is noticeable that some MSS. of the LXX., following apparently a different text, represent the Eunuch as assuming that the king himself had given the order, “Thou has...
אֲדֹנִ֣י הַ מֶּ֗לֶךְ הֵרֵ֜עוּ הָ אֲנָשִׁ֤ים ה
Under these circumstances he continued to foretell the victory of the Chaldeans, with the result that the anger of the princes was stirred up against him, and he was cast into a most loathsome dungeon...
My lord the king, (f) these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is certain to die from hunger in the place where he is:...
See how the Lord raiseth instruments, from the most unexpected quarters, for the deliverance of his people. Here was a stranger, and a Gentile, prompted to fly to the rescue of one of the Lord's proph...
He then said, that the king’s counselors had _done wickedly in all the things which they had done against Jeremiah the Prophet, _because they had cast him into the well: and he added, _There he will d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 37 AND 38. Chapter 37 gives us Zedekiah in the same state of disobedience. A show of religion is kept up, and, having a moment of respite which excites some h...
MY LORD THE KING,.... He addresses him as a courtier, with great reverence and submission, and yet with great boldness: THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET; me...
My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die for hunger in the place where he is: for [the...
_Now when Ebed-melech the Ethiopian_ Or _Cushite_, as the Hebrew is. His country seems to be mentioned to let us know that this prophet of the Lord found more kindness from a stranger, who was a nativ...
JEREMIAH CAST INTO A PIT...
My lord the king, these men, who had ordered this cruelty to be performed against Jeremiah, have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah, the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; an...
HE IS LIKE TO DIE: _ Heb._ he will die...
1-13 Jeremiah went on in his plain preaching. The princes went on in their malice. It is common for wicked people to look upon God's faithful ministers as enemies, because they show what enemies the...
The courage of this good eunuch was very remarkable; he did not stay till the king came in, but went to the king, as he was _sitting in the gate of Benjamin_, administering justice, or receiving and a...
Jeremiah 38:9 lord H113 king H4428 men H582 evil H7489 (H8689) done H6213 (H8804) Jeremiah H3414 prophet...
JEREMIAH'S EXPERIENCES IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD (JEREMIAH 38:1). But even the fact that Jeremiah was in the court of the guard did not prevent him from further maltreatment by those who saw him as a...
JEREMIAH IS SEEN AS A TRAITOR AND IS THRUST INTO A WELL FILLED WITH DEEP MUD WHICH WAS IN THE COURT OF THE GUARD, WHERE HE WOULD HAVE DIED HAD HE NOT BEEN RESCUED BY EBEDMELECH, A SUDANESE (JEREMIAH 3...
Jeremiah 38 Ropes and rags. I. Help always comes from above. Jeremiah found it so. It was useless to try to climb out of the dungeon, it was only to fall deeper into the mire. "Salvation is of the L...
CONTENTS: Jeremiah's imprisonment, continued. His private conference with the king. CHARACTERS: Shephatiah, Gedaliah, Jucal, Pashur, Jeremiah, Zedekiah, Malchiah, Ebed-melech, Jonathan. CONCLUSION: G...
Jeremiah 38:7. _Ebed-melech the Ethiopian,_ the king's chamberlain. It seems to have been a new name given him on his promotion to office; but God gave him long life for preserving the life of Jeremia...
_Ebed-melech the Ethiopian._ EBED-MELECH THE ETHIOPIAN A slave from the Soudan, an eunuch in the household of Zedekiah, King of Judah, is by the side of the great Jeremiah, a humble servant yet an e...
JEREMIAH—NOTE ON JEREMIAH 38:8 EBED-MELECH shows himself superior in character to the weak Zedekiah. He recognizes the injustice Jeremiah 1:1
CRITICAL AND EXEGETICAL NOTES.—CHRONOLOGICAL NOTES as on preceding chapter. Personal Allusions. Jeremiah 38:1. “_Shephatiah_,” never elsewhere mentioned. “_Gedaliah_,” possibly son of “Pashur” the vio...
CONTINUATION. EXPOSITION The object of the princes being frustrated (for in the "court of the guard" Jeremiah had perfect freedom and opportunity of speech), the princes resolve upon a more effectua...
Now we come to the third part of the book of Jeremiah and this covers the period of Zedekiah the king. These particular prophecies, thirty-seven through thirty-nine, cover from the time that Zedekiah...
Esther 7:4; Jeremiah 37:21; Jeremiah 38:1; Jeremiah 52:6; Job 31:34;